KYIV, Ukraine, 7 Jul: A village in a border region of western Russia was evacuated Sunday following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse, local officials said.
\nSocial media footage appeared to show rising clouds of black smoke in the Voronezh region while loud explosions could be heard in succession.
\nGov. Aleksandr Gusev said that falling wreckage triggered the \u201cdetonation of explosive objects.\u201d No casualties were reported, but residents of a nearby village in the Podgorensky district were evacuated, he said. Roads were also closed with emergency services, military and government officials working at the scene.
\nA Ukrainian security official told The Associated Press that a strike had been carried out on a warehouse storing ammunition in the village of Serhiivka in the Voronezh region.
\n\u201cThe enemy stored surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, shells for tanks and artillery, and boxes of cartridges for firearms,\u201d said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give the information to the media. \u201cIt is from this warehouse that the occupiers supply ammunition to their troops in Ukraine.\u201d
\nRussia\u2019s Ministry of Defense did not address the strike in their morning briefing, but said that air defense systems had destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the Belgorod region.
\nAuthorities in Russia\u2019s Krasnodar province on Saturday said a fire at an oil depot had also been caused by falling drone debris. Russia\u2019s emergency services said the blaze was extinguished Sunday morning.
\nThe strikes come after a Ukrainian military spokesperson told The Associated Press Thursday that Kyiv\u2019s troops had retreated from a neighborhood on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important town in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region that has been reduced to rubble under a monthlong Russian assault.
\nRussian forces have for months tried to grind out gains in Ukraine\u2019s industrial east, in an apparent attempt to lock its defenders into a war of attrition. In a joint investigation published Friday, independent Russian news outlets Meduza and Mediazona reported that Moscow\u2019s forces were losing between 200 and 250 soldiers in Ukraine each day.
\nMilitary analysts say Chasiv Yar\u2019s fall could also compromise critical Ukrainian supply routes and put nearby cities in jeopardy, bringing Russia closer to its stated aim of seizing the entire Donetsk region.
\nRussian strikes have also heavily targeted Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure. Officials in Kyiv said Saturday that the city had restored two-thirds of its power generation capacity after recent Russian missile attacks destroyed key power plants.
\n\u201cColossal work has been carried out,\u201d said deputy head of the Kyiv city administration Petro Panteleev. \u201cThe city\u2019s energy facilities, which were built mainly in the Soviet period, are being modernized and become much more efficient.\u201d
\nRussia sent overnight into Sunday two ballistic missiles and 13 Shahed drones, Ukrainian air force officials said. All were shot down but the officials did not elaborate on the impact of the missiles.
\nEight people were killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine in the past day, according to local regional authorities.
\nFour people were killed in the Kherson region, said Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin, while in Donetsk, Gov. AP<\/p>\n
Vadym Filashkin said another two people had been killed in the towns of Niu-York and Ukrainsk. In Dnipropetrovsk, a 65-year-old woman was killed in a Russian attack in the Nikopol district, while a 47-year old man was killed in the Kharkiv region, Governors Serhii Lysak and Oleh Syniehubov said in their respective statements.
\nElsewhere in Ukraine, 14 people died after a bus collided with a cargo vehicle, leaving a single survivor, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said Saturday evening. The victims included a 6-year-old child. AP<\/p>\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KYIV, Ukraine, 7 Jul: A village in a border region of western Russia was evacuated Sunday following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse, local officials said. Social media footage appeared to show rising clouds of black smoke in the Voronezh region while loud explosions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}